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Verner Panton
Known for the innovative and colorful chairs he designed in the 60s, Danish designer Verner Panton (Copenhagen, 1926 - Basel, 1998) began his career as a designer in 1951, after graduating from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. After a short period in which he assisted Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen, he began to work on his chairs, pioneers of the concept of comfort for their sensitivity towards postural problems, which Panton studied and took into account in every project, as well as for their enveloping shapes, which often associated them with the work of Joe Colombo and the Space Age. In 1960 Panton designed the piece that was going to become a great classic of the 20th century, the Panton Chair, produced by Vitra since 1967: it was the result of the combination of a cantilevered structure with an anthropomorphic shape, its distinction being that it was the first chair produced with a single flexible plastic sheet. Panton would decline it in other models with different padding and materials.
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